David Levithan
Maybe your history just repeats and repeats until it batters you enough to snap the seams that hold you togetherCollection: Together
You could be the leaf that never falls from the tree you could be the sun that never leaves the sky this might be the happy ending without the ending this might be a reason to tryCollection: Fall
I am starting to get tired of relying on words.Collection: Tired
Yesterday is another world. I want to go back there.Collection: Yesterday
Every single answer starts with the phrase 'I don't know.' But most of the time she does know, if I give her the time and the space in which to answer.Collection: Space
I have no more idea now of who I am than I did before. But at least I know that. And I'm starting to figure out who I want to be.Collection: Who I Am
being with someone for over a year can mean that you love them … but it can also mean you’re trapped.Collection: Mean
Belonging. Togetherness. These words are as complicated and confusing as the word love. It’s probably all the same thing. Or it would be if we let it be. I can only guess from observation.Collection: Confusing
You can't deny that there's something between us." "No. There is. When I saw you today--I didn't know I'd been waiting for you until you were there. And then all of that waiting rushed through me in a second. That's something... but I don't know if it's certainty.Collection: Waiting
I want you to be honest with me. Even if it hurts. Although I would prefer for it not to hurt.Collection: Hurt
Even though it was hard to see you, it was good to see you.Collection: Hard
You make it a production. Slam doors. Knock things over. Scream. But I just leave. Even if I'm still standing there, I leave. I am refusing you. I am denying you. I am an adjective that is quickly turning into a noun.Collection: Doors
It feels like we’ve stepped outside of time. Even though there is no such place.Collection: Feels
And as we drift into sleep, I feel something I’ve never felt before. A closeness that isn’t merely physical. A connection that defies the fact that we’ve only just met. A sensation that can only come from the most euphoric of feelings: belonging.Collection: Sleep
You don't know, but I'm noticing.Collection: Knows
And I, who have never thought in terms of a life, think to myself that I could make a life out of this.Collection: Thinking
You are so close, and I can’t reach you.Collection: I Can
You're giving up. You're slipping into being miserable and if you are being miserable, then it's all about you again. But it's not all about you. Love doesn't work that way.Collection: Giving Up
Once the storm comes out, the landscape changes. What you had before is altered in some way. And you have a choice: build something new and better from what is left or abandon it.Collection: Choices
You know what happens to girls who loves lost boys? They become lost themselves.Collection: Girl
Her mind is an unquiet one, words and thoughts and impulses constantly crashing into each other.Collection: Mind
I wake up feverish, sore, uncomfortable. Is it sickness or is it heartbreak? I can't tell. The thermometer says I'm normal, but I'm clearly not.Collection: Wake Up
It's the way you say thank you like you're genuinely thankful. I have never met anyone else who does that on a regular basis.Collection: Doe
It feels like I am wasting time. I mean, that's always the case. My life doesn't add up to anything.Collection: Mean
The most understandable thing in the world should be how minutes lead to hours, how hours lead to days, how days can make a year. And yet, this neat progression can still be surprising.Collection: Years
We didn't believe in fate, but we believed in serendipity. We felt very lucky.Collection: Believe
Life tells you to take the elevator, but love tells you to take the stairs.Collection: Funny Love
I never know what you really want, if I can give it to you, or if I’m already too late.Collection: Giving
A photograph it a souvenir of a memory. It is not a moment. It is the looking at the photograph that becomes the moment. Your own moment.Collection: Memories
Most people, I've noticed, are instinctively harsh to strangers. They expect every approach to be an attack, every question to be an interruption.Collection: People
But the thing about a cry for help is that someone else needs to be around to hear it.Collection: Needs
I am always amazed by people who know something is wrong but still insist on ignoring it, as if that will somehow make it go away. They spare themselves the confrontation, but end up boiling in resentment anyway.Collection: People
The way you argued with me, you would have thought that we were debating the existence of God or whether or not we should move in together. These kinds of fights can never be won – even if you’re the victor, you’ve hurt the other person, and there has to be some loss associated with that.Collection: Hurt
And once again I think about how people use the devil as an alias for the things they fear. The cause and effect is backward. The devil doesn't make anyone do anything. People just do things and blame the devil after.Collection: Thinking
People are always separable.Collection: People
It's only in the finer points that it gets complicated and contentious, the inability to realize that no matter what our religion or gender or race or geographic background, we all have about 98 percent in common with each other.... For whatever reason, we like to focus on the 2 percent that's different, and most of the conflict in the world comes from that.Collection: Race
I never have people tell me their stories. I usually have to figure them out myself. Because I know that if people tell me stories, they will expect them to be remembered. And I cannot guarantee that. There is no way to know if the stories stay after I'm gone. And how devastating would it be to confide in someone and have the confidence disappear? I don't want to be responsible for that.Collection: Guarantees That
This is my life, I think. I am an accumulation of objects.Collection: Thinking
But death is not freedom. For a moment, it can look like freedom. But then it's death. Anything. Something. Nothing.Collection: Looks
Yes, time can be buoyed by wordlessness, but it needs to be anchored in words.Collection: Needs
This is not something insignificant. This is real. This is happening, and this is ours.Collection: Real
Making love without noise is like playing a muted piano-fine for practice, but you cheat yourself out of hearing the glorious results.Collection: Practice
It's the secret smile you get from knowing that, somewhere, there is someone who is yours. Not in the sense that you own her or control her. She is yours because you can say anything to her, whenever you need to. And she can do the same, whenever she needs to.Collection: Knowing
How amazing it is that friendships can become so full that you can't imagine what your life was like before them.Collection: Imagine
I am like the fish in the aquarium, thinking in a different language, adapting to a life that’s not my natural habitat. I am the people in the other cars, each with his or her own story, but passing too quickly to be noticed or understood.Collection: Thinking
The clock always ticks. There are times you don't hear it, and there are times that you do.Collection: Tick
There will always be more questions. Every answer leads to more questions. The only way to survive is to let some of them go.Collection: Answers
i have to cross the river of extreme awkwardness in order to get to the paradise on the other side.Collection: Order
I feel the universe is telling me something. And it doesn't even matter if it's true or not. What matters is that I feel it, and believe it.Collection: Believe